Ubuntu question

[Slasher]

Well... I decided to scrap SuSE for the time being 'cause I fancied a mess about with something else... Ordered some ubuntu cd's a while ago and ended up getting dapper 6.06 version of ubuntu.

However my question is this;
I somehow managed to totally mess up the process of installing ndiswrapper. Would there be a way to clear all of the ndiswrapper stuff so I can start again with it?

Thanks in advance and any help is appreciated...... bloody wireless stuff!! *laughs*

[Kraken]

heh heh heh...stupid fairy

[windhound]

er, see a previous post with all the ndiswrapper commands (or type 'ndiswrapper --help')
you'll just want to remove whatever drivers you've installed, thats the only critical bit.

though I've yet to see a builtin wireless card that didnt work proper with ubuntu...

you're also about 1.75 update cycles behind in ubuntu, Edgy (6.10) was released a little while back, and I think Fawn is April sometime... its only one cd

[Slasher]

cheers got it from help, what a gimp why didnt i think of that....


EDIT: YAYYYYYYYYYYYY Done it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! now to bust it

Well beryl wont go on this version of ubuntu so for now I'm downloading the latest ISO aswell as fedora core 6 to play around with and freebsd (dont even ask *laughs*)

[Slasher]

Upgraded ubuntu, broke ndiswrapper and trying to fix it, got beryl to work, it's very nice and thats all I need to show off at college to all the windows gimps (like one of our tutors, he thinks windows vista is the best thing since sliced bread.... but he's a smeghead)


RIP Ndiswrapper, I think I killed it rofl

[The Beatles]

You're farther ahead than I've gotten then. Good job!

[windhound]

meh. beryl requires composite, and my ati drivers go screwy when I try to enable it. so no [extra] shiny for me
glad you got it workin'

the nice thing about linux is that about anything can be removed and reinstalled with minimal effort. windows registry ftl. and if you do have to reinstall, you dont have to worry about the licence file crapping out.. 'cause there isnt one = D

if ndiswrapper died just remove your old driver and try it again

[Slasher]

Yeah I'm gonna delete ndiswrapper and use some script i found for broadcom on ubuntuguide


That reminds me:

Slasher says:
i called my tutor an MS fanboy today

xfceslacker says:
lmao

Slasher says:
he was bollocking me for using my laptop in class

Slasher says:
i was working on it

xfceslacker says:
lmao

Slasher says:
just had openoffice word up

Slasher says:
he comes up to me and goes turn that off

Slasher says:
(i was messing around with beryl)

xfceslacker says:
*laughs*

Slasher says:
so i said ooohhhh yeaaaahhhh only cause u dont want people to see how much better this is to MS you MS fanboy

Slasher says:
he was shocked

Slasher says:
didnt know what to say

[The Beatles]

Heh, I imagine he didn't know what to say.

Let's hope he will not find the right words to draft a letter to your parents or anything.

[Slasher]

*laughs* yeah, though I could care less, hes a complete gimboid anyways... The other tutor gave me permission to use my laptop because the college network was messed up (upgrading servers to vista or something stupid)... I also said if they plan on putting vista on the workstation computers, they better get used to me taking my laptop in everyday! XP I can put up with.... But vista..... <span style='font-size:30pt;line-height:100%'>EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW</span>

[Slasher]

http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu_Edgy#Ndiswrapper_for_Broadcom_43xx_wireless_chipset FTW! managed to get wireless working


hmmmmmmmmmmmmm anyone got any idea how to install Kvirc on ubuntu? It keeps telling me off

<span style='color:red'>Dependency is not satisfiable: kvirc-data</span>

[windhound]

code: Select all

windhound@windhounds:~$ sudo apt-get install kvirc
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  kvirc-data
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  kvirc kvirc-data
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 53 not upgraded.
Need to get 6340kB of archives.
After unpacking 23.3MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com edgy/universe kvirc-data 2:3.2.4-3ubuntu1 [3399kB]
Get:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com edgy/universe kvirc 2:3.2.4-3ubuntu1 [2941kB]
Fetched 6340kB in 47s (134kB/s)                                                
Selecting previously deselected package kvirc-data.
(Reading database ... 95906 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking kvirc-data (from .../kvirc-data_2%3a3.2.4-3ubuntu1_all.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package kvirc.
Unpacking kvirc (from .../kvirc_2%3a3.2.4-3ubuntu1_i386.deb) ...
Setting up kvirc-data (3.2.4-3ubuntu1) ...

Setting up kvirc (3.2.4-3ubuntu1) ...

windhound@windhounds:~$ 

worked fine for me
er.
did it give you that error the very first time you tried to install it?
you should probably also make sure all the repos are selected, but given it found kvirc that shouldnt be the issue
*shrug*

[Slasher]

Meh I didn't use apt-get, apparently that ones out of date so I got the deb off their site and it didnt work....meeh will try it in a bit when i finish this stuff off

[The Beatles]

There's also plenty of other IRC clients, like xchat or irssi.

[Slasher]

xchat = sucky
gaim = sucky for IRC
kvirc = awesome
mirc = good too but wine doesn't run it v. well though some other thing like wine does, but I can't remember what it's called.